Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-06-24

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The Masonic grand lodge of Dakota has
passed IA re olution that no person en-
gagged in the saloon bushes shall be en-
titsd TO membership in any subordinate
lodge in the Jurisdiction This has a so
been done in Missouri.
The Penokee and Gogebic development
company has been con- olidated with the
Ashland mining company, in Wisconsin,
under the name of the Consolidated Colby
Mines, thus making the strongest iron
mining company perhaps in the world.
The will of the late William A. Wheeler
gives S25 900 TO home missions, $1,000 TO
foreign missions, $500 10 his housekeeper,
Betsey Chambers, and few requests are
made 10 various friends. 1t is rumored
TINT interested parties intend % contest
the will.
At San Antonio. Texas, the other day,
the MAJ or chief of police, an ex alderman,
the cashier of the San Antonio national
bank, and four other prominent citizens,
we're arrested on United States warrant,
charged with breaking up prohibitionists
meeting
Reports from seven counties in Florida
state that an epidemic of rabies among
dogs and cattle prevails there Several
persons il is said, have been bitten by the
rabid dogs Much excitement prevails
and dog and cattle killing parties are Or
ganizing
Several shocks of earthquake occurred
in Nernome, Turkestan, on the the 10th
inst. The town was almost entirely de
stroyed, and 10 persons killed and num-
| Der injured. The inhabitants of the town
became panic stricken and fed to the open
country for safety.
The stables OF the Lafayette brewing
company in ~. Louis, were burned the
other day, and II valuable horses per
shed. The same day the stables of the
Mound City street car company in the
same city were burned and 300 mules
were burned to crisp.
\ young man named William Mahoney
Jumped from the Cincinnati suspension
bridge the other night TO satisfy himself
and few friend, that the feat could be
safely accomplished He was not seriously
hurt, but complained Of a pain in his back
and was taken 10 the hospital.
The Rev. George Pittard, pastor of the
] North Fork Methodist church in Reidville,
:. G., and teacher in a boys school during
the week, was accidentally hit by ball
from the hand of one of his pupils, which so
enraged him that he knocked the boy down
and stamped him 20 death. He has since
fel
The interstate commerce commission
has decided that railroads must judge for
| themselves when TO comply with the long
| and short haul clause Of the interstate
! commerce law. If the circumstances and
conditions warrant discrimination. all
we'll and good if not then the roads must
suffer
Rumors are rife at Kansas City of the
disappearance Of Walter ;. Condor, grand
secretary and treasurer Of the switchman'
mutual aid association, and of the cause
thereof. His wife has not heard from him
in three weeks, and admits that .he has
lost considerable amount in gambling
His defalcations may reach $500.
The east-bound California express on the
Southern Pacific railroad was robbed at
3 O'Clock the other morning 10y band Of
robbers near Flatona, Fayette county
Texas, about - miles east Of San Antonio
and 40 miles west of Houston. The ex-
press car was robbed. Nobody was killed
IL Is rumored that the robbers secured
$1,000
y statue OF Nahum Iult. uldut DN tue
| authority of the state OF Connecticut has
been placed in the capitol. II is the work
of Carl Gerhardt of Hartford. and is
bronze figure Of heroic size Hale is rep
resented with the arms partly outst.etched
and in an attitude suggesting his famous
words of regret that he had but one life 70
give for his country.
Surrogate Rollins of New York has rem
dered decision sustaining the will Of the
late Jesse Hoyt. who lett several millions
of do lars. II was appealed from 10y Miss
Mary Irene Hoyt, 10 whom had been be
queathed the income Of 81 $4,000 Benz.
r. Butler argued the appeal for Miss Hoyt
and Elihu Root and Joseph II. Choate rep
resented the proponent
There Is much excitement over the re
cent discoveries of iron ore in Buffalo
county, Wis. Every shaft sunk shows
rich deposits and four companies have
| been organized. The first one, the Buffalo
county mining, has been incorporated
with a capita stock of 100000. The iron
range lies four miles east of the Burlington
track among the bluT towns The ore is
OF fine quality and j. declared 10y geolo
gists t. lie an original deposit
Methodist minister who was murdered at
| Sioux City, Iowa, over year ago, has
determined 20 take up her permanent
abode in the place where her husband met
his fate She takes the failure to convic
the alleged murderer very much to heart,
and it is thought that her determination
TO return TO Sioux City is due 10 a resolve
TO personally leave nothing undone to
bring the perpetrators Of the crime to
justice.
John G. Pickett, the son of Nathan Pick
EFT, prominent member of the society of
Friends and president Of the Howard ma
tional bank of Kokomo, Ind, has beer ar
rested. charged with hiring the Malesh
brothers to burn the Dixon block last
January. causing n loss OF $4,000. The
Malesh brothers, William and Joseph, now
in Jail, say that Pickett, who had $4,000
insurance on an $ 90 stock of goods gave